Maclean’s

EDITOR’S NOTE

EDITOR’S NOTE

IN THIS ISSUE OF MACLEAN’S I confess that, until recently, I felt relatively immune from climate change living in southern Ontario. Obviously, I knew that the Earth’s rising temperature would impact...

COMMENTS

THE END OF HOMEOWNERSHIP

For generations, middle-elass Canadians haw been sold on the promise ofhomeownersJiip. lite promise was always flawed. Today its simply broken. HOME TRUTHS “The End of Homeownership,” Michelle Cyca’s...

THE INTERVIEW

For minister Sean Fraser, immigration is more than just a numbers game

ON THE OFF CHANCE you overhear a Canadian bragging, it’s usually to say that this is the greatest country in the world. It might violate our national modesty policy to add that we’re now also one of...

THE BIG IDEA

Teach kids about misinformation

With the rampant spread of fake news and conspiracy theories, Canadian students would benefit from extra lessons in BS detection. THE CANADIAN WILDFIRES were caused by space lasers? The U.S....

THE GIG

Feast or Famine

My family has been farming in Saskatchewan for three generations. With the looming shortage of skilled workers, our future is in flux. I’VE ALWAYS BEEN A FARMER. I grew up mere steps away from where I...

THE PROSPECT

The Animated Hero

Meet Callum Shoniker , the Toronto teen voicing the biggest characters in the cartoon universe CALLUM SHONIKER KNOWS what it’s like to be a member of PAW Patrol ’s fandom. He turned four in 2013, the...

THE BUILDING

Back to the Future

Cape Breton Island’s old-timey Highland Village Museum just got an upgrade fit for the 21st century DURING THE HIGHLAND CLEARANCES of the 18th and 19th centuries, landowners forced roughly 70,000...

COVER STORY

CANADA IN THE YEAR 2O6O

Summers lost to fire and smoke. Biblical floods. Dying forests. Retreating coasts. Economic turmoil and political unrest. It’s going to be a weird century. Here’s what it will look like—and how Canada...

FEATURES

CULTURE

THE TREND

THE GREAT TRUFFLE HUNT

We spent two decades trying to grow Périgord truffles on our Okanagan farm. This year, we finally succeeded. I FIRST TRIED TRUFFLES IN 2006, at dinner with my wife, Andrea, and two of our friends at...

HABITAT

A COASTAL REFUGE

Two university friends teamed up to build this hidden Nova Scotia haven TERI APPLEBY AND NOVA TAYONA met in 1995 while waitressing together as students at Dalhousie University. In late 2012, they...

MY ARRIVAL

“Thirteen years ago, I left St. Lucia to work in Ontario. When can my wife and sons join me?”

I spend 12 hours a day in a greenhouse, but the hardest part of my job is being apart from family I GREW UP IN A SMALL FARMING COMMUNITY CALLED AUX LYON in St. Lucia. As a young boy, I yearned to...